The event showcased small businesses along Baltimore Avenue, from 42nd to 50th streets, selling samples of their goods for only a dollar.

The $8.5-million project is an environmentally sustainable contribution to Penn. Among other benefits, the green will help reduce runoff and improve water quality. VIDEO: Shoemaker Green Opening

The termination means that employees at the banking and financial services company will be hired knowing they will stay at the company for more than two years.

Among the 61 freshmen running for positions within student government, 23 students are competing for eight available spots on the UA while 11 are vying for the position of Class Board president.

Skimmer Fest will combine Skimmer’s emphasis on athletics and school spirit with Fall Fest’s display of Penn’s diverse student organizations.

Police officers and volunteer clergy members are going door-to-door discussing with residents ways to improve neighborhood security.

Rave Cinemas, located on the corner of 40th and Walnut streets, swarmed with Penn students gathered to catch the free advanced screening of the musical comedy “Pitch Perfect” last night.

During On-Campus Recruiting, many become more conscious of the undergraduate school listed at the top of the resume.

Registration will be open this weekend for preceptorials, non-credit, non-graded classes that normally meet once or twice a semester. VIDEO: Word on the Walk – Preceptorials

A dozen classes across Penn’s campus are piloting a new system, called the Course Absence Report, to facilitate communication between instructors and students regarding long-term absences.

Professor Mary France Berry gave a one minute lecture on “What Would the Founders Think: Political Polarization and the 2012 Election” as a part of the 60-Second lecture series.

Nancy Cox, a 1971 Nursing graduate who co-founded the University City Arts League and the University City Swim Club in the 1960s with her husband, died on Aug. 28 after suffering a stroke. She was 81.

The parents of a John Carroll University student who died last year after suffering fatal injuries at a Phi Kappa Sigma New Year’s party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit that some believe may result in a multimillion-dollar payout.

SPEC Concerts Co-Director and Wharton senior Ronnie DiSimone said that although SPEC Concerts typically puts on an indie-rock show, it wanted to take an alternative route with this year’s artist.

Nutter unveiled The Woodland Avenue Pedestrian Plaza as part of a joint initiative between University City District and the city’s Office of Transportation and Utilities to transform parts of city streets into small pedestrian seating areas and parks.

David Pakman, an entrepreneur and current partner at venture capital firm Venrock, spoke to a packed room in Huntsman Hall at Alpha Kappa Psi’s first installment of their “Aspire to Excellence Speaker Series.”

On Sept. 12, Butler implied in a tweet that the creator of the controversial film “Innocence of Muslims,” which mocked the prophet Mohammed, should be arrested.